different forum boards when i was looking into it myself. the only way to 100% this game in sub 6 hours is by following a guide, which will obviously cut down completion time, but why do that? actually playing the game, exploring everything, running blindly through the story, the game is easily 12+ hours and yields so much more satisfaction. i just finished the green house boss fight, only the second major boss in the game, and im at 5 hours. but i can tell you in exact detail every nook and cranny of the baker house because i took my time and explored every inch of the mansion. could i be near the end game by now? sure. would i have actually enjoyed and learned shit about the game, observed all the files, found all the bobble heads and antique coins up to the point im currently at? of course not. the new dlc's coming out will add longevity to the game, the new difficulty mode theyre adding is supposedly going to make mad house mode a joke.

i can speed run dark souls 3 in 1hr 30 mins, and that game is damn well worth the 60 buck price tag it came with.

Yeah i get you i tend to play slow on playthroughs myself i also always play on the hardest mode
after what you said i'll probably still buy for 60$ because i am the type to find every little clue and easter egg
i dont want it to play like 5-6 i want it to play like 4 with the 1-3 feeling (when i was a kid gave me a shit scare feeling )
hopefully dlc is fuckin gfg but yeah i been watching gameplay it looks amazing tbh

It's good that someone is enjoying it.

I will pick it up once it drops to $20 or $30, but I'm just not going to spend that much on a game that I'll on a best case scenario get 10 hours out of it. Whenever I check reviews and length of time people get put into them, I almost always have to subtract 20-30% of their time to get my first play-through time. The biggest problem I'm having with the reviews is of everyone talking about what a joke the boss fights are. While normal combat can be enjoyable in RE games, the epic boss fights are what made them go from great to amazing. It also sounds like the majority of the game is just gimmicky jump scares that get boring as hell and all too predictable after your first hour or two of time. I love RE games, and I always have. I remember one night playing the original RE with my dad and older brother in the dark. The game scared the ever living shit out of me at like 7 or 8 years old, but it was just fucking amazing.

In the past year I've played and beaten 1,4,5, and 6 just for the fuck of it. 1 > 4 > 5 > 6, but I enjoy them all. 1 is still my favorite and always will be. It was creepy, it had a good story, interesting characters, intricate puzzles, secrets everywhere, amazing weapons, and awesome boss fights + enemy encounters that made you jump. Everything about it was just fucking perfect. My first run took like 6-8 hours on it, but the replay value is off the charts. You've got two different people you can fuck with, and then the extra awesome shit you can get from beating it on the harder difficulties or doing it without saving etc... make it worth playing from start to finish 4+ times. My fastest time was just at an hour with rockets, and 1 hour and 40 minutes without using any special weapons.

It sounds like you might get 2 plays out of RE7, but what's the point? If the ride isn't enjoyable, why do it? Everything I've heard says they completely ruined boss fights, the puzzles are laughably easy, and that there's just not that much from start to finish to look forward to. I still want to play it and I will, I guess I'm maybe just trying to lower my expectations as much as humanely possible to ensure that I at least enjoy it and it doesn't end up being another game I buy, play for an hour or two and then go back to something that's actually fun or entertaining.

Youll enjoy it, trust me. I was very critical initially when deciding to purchase this but I absolutely do not regret it. If you enjoy hunting for collectibles, theres like 50+ in a play through, and on the hardest difficult (mad house) theres actually an additional 15 coins to collect so it switches location and quantity up. The dlc is out for ps4 users and ive heard the new difficulty mode is drastically more difficult then the already mind numbingly hard mad house, so expect replayability to increase!




Im telling you, you cannot complete this game fully in 10 hours and expect to get every collectable, every weapon and upgrade and achievement. Im telling you from first hand experience, unless youre a casual who uses walkthroughs and guides lol. You absolutely will not be shaving off 20-30% completion time lol, idc how good you think you are at games or this franchise in general, it is drastically different then the other resident evils. The boss fights are the hardest in a long time, nothing in 4-6 compare. I was a speed runner on resident evil 4 and i was capable of completing a professional run in sub hour and 15 mins with no exploits and id be baffled if someone can beat this game sub one hour. As for the boss fights, im playing through on normal, and it is harder than professional mode on prior resident evils. The bosses are sponges, no joke. I cant go buy a rocket launcher and drop a boss in 30 seconds, like what you could do on res4. They fucking eat, and ammo is exponentially more scarce than previous installments, so if youre not spot on regarding item management youre screwed. Read some reviews on mad house difficulty before considering the bosses to be gimmicky. Maugriet is the living/breathing definition of a sponge. There are jump scares, but it isn't solely that. The game overall is fucking creepy, from enemies, wandering/unkillable bosses that you have to strategically maneuver around and not get spotted, to the lighting and music, it truly is a remarkable horror game.

As for replayability, itll take you a minimum of 3 play throughs to 100% You get unlocks if you beat the game sub 4 hours, attaining all collectible items in one run, achievements for healing less than 3 times, achievement for using your item storage unit 3 or less times, unlimited ammo for beating mad house, etc.

Stop trying to sell the game short, youre not going to be met with disappointment unless youre a snob gamer. I was on the fence like you, tried rationalizing that it wont be as good as other installments, but i said fuck it and purchased it, and i have zero regrets. It does not get tedious nor boring. Take my word fam, its a good game!

This post was edited by Sopranos on Jan 31 2017 10:19pm

^ If I buy it and I beat it in under 10 hours with 90%+, I'm going to murder you . I've never used a guide for any game in my entire life and I never will. Games these days are easy enough on their own, I generally go out of my way to make them more difficult. As far as madhouse goes, reviews I've seen had said it's a joke compared to professional mode, which I always play on after my first play and haven't had any problems. RE5 with the computer partner was difficult during the 2v2 jill/wesker fight, but pretty fucking easy beside that.

Every review I've read has said the bosses are a complete joke. You're the only person I've seen who's said they were challenging or entertaining.

I'm still going to try and wait until it at least drops to $40. Just don't want to drop full price on a game that I've got low expectations for.

Thanks for your input though, it is nice to hear some positive things about a game I had high expectations for that slowly died.

This post was edited by jadeoshbogosh on Jan 31 2017 10:24pm

Id like to meet these people who said professional mode was harder than mad house lol. Theyre probably just trying to either sound cool, or theyre lying because theyre unhappy with how this resident panned out, away from action packed to a horror focus. Ive 100% res4-6 and this is harder by far. For example, on res 4 fighting the priest dude in the workshed or whatever his name was, ill call him baldy. It was a 2 phase fight, right before him is a merchant that i could purchase an rpg from, and 1 hit the boss. It took me less than a minute to beat him, and every other boss was capable of being 1 pieced by the rpg, which i could simply buy lol. Res7, there arent merchants, i cant upgrade my weapons, enemies dont drop ammo or gold or herbs, nada lol. The bosses are, as i said, fucking sponges. I went into the second main boss fully stocked, ~50 bullets for my hand gun, 20ish shot gun shells, 300 rounds for my flamethrow, and i shit you not, it was all depleted post fight, and i landed at least 95% of my shots. Resident evil 4 was my favorite in the series, its my baby, but res 7 is tougher regarding bosses. The enemies in this game (called molded) require at least 6 head shots on normal, its an absurd amount to put them down considering the ammo packs that you find only SOMETIMES in crates, hold 10-15 lol. Its certainly more tactical and ammunition preservation is drastically more difficult.

This post was edited by Sopranos on Jan 31 2017 11:03pm

I'm going to choose to believe you. I will try to pick the game up next week and I'll let you know what the result is.

I want to believe you and if you're right, it sounds like I'll actually enjoy the game.

Literally every review I read said the boss fights were a joke lol. I always played without the rocket launcher unless I'd already beaten the game on professional or hardest difficulty in all the RE games. Shit always makes it too easy. It is a fucking rocket though.

Good man. Im telling you, if you go into playing it with a clear mindset, no pre-judgments and certain expectations, youre going to enjoy it. I just finished the game last night on my normal playthrough at 16 hours, which i felt was the perfect length. This was with exploring every area, finding all the collectibles i possibly could have, and plenty of deaths to bosses figuring out patterns, and enemy placements. The main bosses, the baker family, are challenging, the hardest imo being margeurite, mad house is truly going to be a challenge. The unlocks you get after completing notmal mode, coupled with unlocks from finding all collectibles make me super excited to do my second play through which will be my sub 4 hour run, which unlocks even more bonus items. Then i can finally do my mad house playthrough. Take my word, replayability is there!

Its pretty god just get it and play.

Any one bought the survival dlc?
It should of been free packaged in the game